Word: poeticizing
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Sixteen-year-old Lizinka Tachezy, the title character, is the "femme fatale" par excellence. Drifting through the book in the innocent stupor of childishness, she neither acts nor reacts to the other characters. Her presence stimulates them, while she remains passive. When a shy, poetic classmate of hers feels that his love for Lizinka has been repulsed, he commits murder and then suicide. Later, Assistant Professor Simsa becomes attracted to his pupil, but finds that his impotence is directly proportional to his desire. In a brutal and surreal scene, he takes Lizinka to a prison and tries to rape...
...declares, "trees outnumber people." The place is "15 minutes from Ashland (home of the summer Shakespearean Festival) in the valley of the Rogue River, beloved by demented steelhead and salmon anglers. Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming at your back door." The Bear Creek people need someone to wax poetic in prose about things they sell. Writers are invited to send in and tell about their qualifications...
When you described the space shuttle, you were blind to its most poetic resemblance. It looks like the Taj Mahal...
...needs more bands that kick down our doors and shatter our complacency. Give us the unrestrained Sex Pistols doing "Johnny B. Goode," forgetting the lyrics. Or Dylan or Springsteen, moving toward some poetic vision, trying to find a way to reaffirm life in the face of death. Leave the dildo to Steely Dan, to those who can't enjoy real...
...Nevelson may fairly be said to have reinvented environmental art for herself. In the 1920s and '30s many artists worked on room-size environments in which painting and sculpture were melded on an architectural scale. But nobody had given this juncture between the categories of art the intense poetic charge that Nevelson brought to it. This became triumphantly clear in the large sculptures she started producing in the late '50s, the environmental walls. Essentially they consist of irregular stacks of shallow boxes, filled with forms in relief and painted black. They have an extraordinarily dignified, almost hieratic sense...